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	american type founders company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The American Type Founders Company was initially composed of twenty-three type foundries that joined together in 1892 in order to compete with the new typesetting machines, the Linotype and Monotype.
		The ATF Library & Museum was to preserve the books and manuscripts that had descended through the various "family trees" of the combined type founding firms.
		ATF declared bankruptcy late in 1933, and the Library and Museum was slated for sale.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/data/indiv/rare/type-exhibit/atf.htm (208 words)

	Monotype Imaging: Timeline
		United States Type Founders’ Association met at Niagara to consider the systematic and regularized measurement of metal type bodies.
		The line drawing of the machine accompanying the text (based on a photograph in the American source) shows a sprawling device that was slow and unwieldy.
		American Type Founders Company formed from the amalgamation of more than a score of independent foundries dotted around the USA.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /AboutUs/MT1844_1894.aspx (558 words)

	American Type Founders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Type Founders (ATF) was created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, including Binny and Ronaldson, Boston Type Foundry, Central Type Foundry, Dickinson Type Foundry, and Farmer, Little and Co. Other major competitors were absorbed soon thereafter, including Bruce Type Foundry in 1901 and Barnhart Brothers and Spindler in 1911.
		ATF was the dominant American manufacturer of metal type from its creation in 1892 until at least the 1940s, and continued to be influential into the 1960s.
		Morris Fuller Benton, arguably the most prolific type designer in history, served as ATF's chief type designer from 1900 to 1937, and many of his scores of designs continue to be popular today, including Franklin Gothic (Microsoft's corporate typeface), Bank Gothic, Broadway, and most of the Century family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Type_Founders (643 words)

	Hansen Type Foundry
		When the American Type Founders consolidation was organized in 1892, there were five type foundries in Boston, the Dickinson Type Founders, Boston Type Foundry, New England Type Foundry, Curtis & Mitchell Type Foundry, and the H. Hansen Type Foundry.
		Maurice Annenberg writes about it: "Their type catalog of 1909 is rated one of the best that has ever been produced, comparable to the American Type Founders Company and Barnhart Brothers & Spindler." Unfortunately, H.C. Hansen was dismantled around 1922.
		ATF's Central Type Foundry branch showed it as early as 1893, in usual form without lowercase, but with several sizes on each of several bodies in the manner of Copperplate Gothic.
	cg.scs.carleton.ca /~luc/hansen/index.html (1679 words)

	the view from jersey
		The American Type Founders Company was founded in 1892, and had 26 branch plants in cities including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Havana, Cuba, and Mexico City.
		This building was the largest type foundry in the world, and the ATF held a monopoly on the type industry until modernized typesetting technologies made movable type obsolete.
		Construction of the ATF building was mostly finished and the building was occupied by 1903, although additions continued until 1910.
	www.constantreader.org /v2/view52.html (1041 words)

	Typebox / Thinkbox / History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His idea was to reduce the number of widths in a font to nine in order to cut time in justifying a body of type (inventing the idea of pre-determined widths in a font).
		The invention came to be called “self-spacing” type, named by a compositor who was shocked by how much time was saved in using this method for setting his type.
		American Metal Typefaces reports him as designing 221 faces in his lifetime, putting him at the top of the list as the most prolific type designer so far.
	www.typebox.com /3thinkbox/3hist1_2.html (817 words)

	Chapter Two-capsuled <i>to</i> Type of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use of by American type founders, but is substantially correct for England.
		Many of the type founders indicate the new sizes of type by the number of points, and the old names are gradually being done away with.
		By the point system type founders cast type of a uniform size and height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other type made by different founders would often vary slightly so that they could not be used together.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1211/24361/6.html (406 words)

	LOST Magazine - Claude Garamond
		American Type Founders (ATF) were first, and then in 1921 Frederic Goudy offered his interpretation, Garamont.
		As a printer he was unremarkable, but as a designer and punch-cutter he was unparalleled, cutting the smallest type ever seen, an italic and roman of a size less than what would now be 5pt.
		The Australian Henry Lewis Bullen (1857-1938) was publicity manager of American Type Founders and assembled their formidable typographical reference library, both to preserve the resources of the small American foundries driven into extinction by the creation of ATF, but also to provide invaluable research material for the company's own type revivals.
	www.lostmag.com /issue6/garamond.php (1129 words)

	A Brief History of Type
		This remained true until the invention of movable type, the perfection of which is attributed to Johannes Gutenberg (although the Chinese had it several centuries earlier, and a Dutch fellow named Coster may have had some crude form a decade earlier).
		Although there is a new accessibility of type design tools for hobbyists and professional graphic artists, the decreasing value of individual typefaces has resulted in a decrease in the number of working type designers per se (both independents and company-employed).
		The "Fat Face" types were an offshoot of the moderns, intended for display purposes (that is, to be attention-getting for use in large sizes, particularly advertising).
	www.redsun.com /type/abriefhistoryoftype (4762 words)

	LANSTON FONT \| SOL HESS \| LANSTON SWING BOLD, No. 217 \| KAUFMANN
		Some type manufacturers strangely have taken to a misuse of the legal system by the legal conversion of trademark properties even though they do not morally own them.
		Had American Type Founders continued to provide types I would not wish to sell this face.
		However I feel we are the "second" most entitled to this type face design, first in the use of the trademark.
	www.p22.com /lanston/Giampa/LanstonSwing.html (309 words)

	LANSTON TYPE \| ATF \| AMERICAN TYPE CASTING FELLOWSHIP
		ATF should not be confused with American Type Founders of similar abbreviation.
		The ATF Fellowship is membered by many typographical giants.
		My gravure with the wooden handle at the top of the picture was used to cut away portions of the lead printers fleurons.
	www.p22.com /lanston/Giampa/ATFCover.html (329 words)

	Skyline Type Foundry
		Designed by Will Bradley and released by American Type Founders in 1905, this rare and unique type face is once again proffered in foundry metal to discriminating letterpress printers and collec-tors.
		This face of classic understated beauty was released by ATF in 1902, and for over a century has served the letterpress printer with distinction and taste in a wide variety of uses.
		This lighthearted and informal type face was issued in the 1930s by American Type Founders.
	www.skylinetype.com /typefonts.html (331 words)

	TCS - Measuring Type
		The system was invented by Pierre Fournier, a French type founder, in 1737; his unit measured 0.349 mm.
		In 1886 the American Type Founders' Association adopted a standard point of 0.013837 inch (0.3515 mm), which was later (1898) recognised in the United Kingdom; 0.013837 inches is the equivalent of 72.27 points per inch, but Adobe decided that there should be exactly seventy-two points to the inch.
		Unlike metal type, the bounding box horizontal dimension is the same for all characters in a given typeface with a separate 'box' that determines each character's width.
	www.tcs.org /ioport/dec04/type.htm (905 words)

	Mark Batty Publisher/ Articles/ Description
		On August 24, 1993, the contents of the American Type Founders offices were sold in a bankruptcy auction in Elisabeth, New Jersey.
		Cynthia Batty (Hollandsworth at that time) was among the many printing and type people who attended the auction, hoping to have a chance at some pieces of the ATF history for their personal or institutional collections.
		The ATF foundry was not the last traditional hot metal foundry in America, but it was the largest.
	www.markbattypublisher.com /servlet/article_view?number=5007 (712 words)

	Foam Train fonts: a history of type
		The type were put into a matrix to form the page of text, inked, then pressed into paper.
		American Type Founders (ATF) formed in the United States, to escape bankruptcy.
		Lenses were used to adjust the size of the image, scaling the type to the desired size.
	www.owlsoup.com /foamtrain/history.html (547 words)

	Libraries & Culture, Bookplate Archive
		Bullen left ATF in 1899 but returned in 1908 and remained with the firm until his death in 1938.
		When ATF erected a new building in Jersey City in 1908, Nelson reserved space for the Library, persuaded the board of directors to give official sanction to the project, and appointed Bullen as librarian and curator.
		Beginning in the late 1940s, the ATF Library was dispersed among several libraries at Columbia, primarily the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the School of Library Service Library, to facilitate cataloguing and to make the collection more accessible to users.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~landc/bookplates/21_4_ATF.htm (939 words)

	Kingsley/ATF font foundry : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ATF owns the rights to one of the world’s greatest libraries of original typefaces, largely directed and created by Morris Fuller Benton.
		Foundries that were incorporated into ATF include: Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (1911); Binny & Ronaldson (1892); Boston Type Foundry (1892); Bruce Type Foundry (1901); Central Type Foundry (1893); Farmer, Little & Co. (1892); Inland Type Foundry (1912).
		These days the only sign of ATF fonts is in licensing deals with experienced digital foundries such as Bitstream and Adobe.
	www.myfonts.com /foundry/atf (271 words)

	ATF Davidson / American Type Founders Davidson / Chief 15 / Chief 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ATF Davidson / American Type Founders Davidson / Chief 15 / Chief 17
		ATF Davidson Dualith 500, ATF Davidson Dualith 600, ATF Davidson Dualith 700, ATF Davidson
		ATF Davidson Perfector 500, ATF Davidson Perfector 700, ATF Davidson Pefector 502, ATF
	www.atfservices.com (123 words)

	Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 178
		Also, the ATF edition which includes an introductory article on the typographic collection Henry Bullen had organized and had been librarian of; the article helped bring the project national acclaim in 1923.
		Type specimens, decorations, borders, cuts, etc., throughout, some printed in color, plus illustrations of printing presses, type racks, composing tables and other equipment available; frontis.
		Type specimens, decorations, borders, cuts, etc., throughout, some printed in colored ink; plus illustrations of printing presses, type racks, composing tables and other equipment available.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat178-6.html (4396 words)

	A Checklist of Type Specimens 1628-2002 in the Robert Grabhorn Collection - SFPL.org
		A Specimen of Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to his Majesty [and] A Specimen of Printing Types, by Joseph Fry and Sons, Letter-Founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields, London, 1785 [and] A Specimen of Printing Types.
		A specimen of the Fell type by Bruce Rogers.
		Type Book; This Same being intended as an aid to the Worker in Type who seeks proper guidance for his inspiration in the selection of suitable type faces possessing those characteristics of refinement which are most acceptable to good taste in letter-press work
	sfpl.lib.ca.us /librarylocations/main/bookarts/typespecs.htm (3229 words)

	x-height: FontHaus' Online Magazine : Interview with Matthew Carter
		Instead of setting founder´s type, the Linotype cast a solid line, or slug, of hot-metal type from brass matrices brought into position by means of a keyboard.
		To survive the inroads made by Linotype and Monotype, ATF was formed to supply precast metal type nationwide.
		Yes, the irony is that Benton invented the pantographic punchcutter for use by traditional type founders, but it facilitated the commercial success of Linotype and Monotype.
	www.fonthaus.com /xheight/matthewcarter.cfm (2106 words)

	Monotype chronicles
		Monotype D Keyboard incorporating several improvements, notably adoption of the universal typewriter layout of buttons allowing speedier touch operation and a simplified internal mechanism reducing the number of air valves from 225 to 33.
		It enabled a job to be set simultaneously in two different type sizes and to two different measures.
		Monotype Display Type Caster (later known as the Type and Rule Caster) enabled printers to stock hand-composing rooms with fonts of type, quads, leads, and rules.
	www.letterpress.ch /APINET/MONOTYPE.timeline/1907_16.html (881 words)

	Trade Catalogs: Printing Publishing and the Book Trades
		This scarce, eighteenth-century American bookseller's catalog was issued by Thomas Greenleaf, a well-known printer who is remembered today for his newspaper, the New York Journal.
		When stereotyping, a process which utilized printing plates made from set up type, was introduced in America, the Boston Type Foundry became a major producer of stereotype plates.
		Founded in 1891, the American Type Founders Company (ATF) consolidated twenty separate type founders and became the leading American type and printing equipment business.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/tradecat/1print.htm (964 words)

	Introduction to Letterpress Printing
		The patriarch of type founders (the man who literally wrote the book on the subject, and is virtually the only one still casting on original ATF Barth foundry casters) is the former linchpin of American Type Founders, Theo Rehak of the Dale Guild.
		For European type, the primary remaining foundry is the Schriftenservice division of the Stemple museum, which has the original matrices from a wide array of well-known European faces.
		The Sterling Type Foundry in Indianapolis is, along with Quaker City Type Foundry in Pennsylvania, the oldest continually operating type foundry in the US (both were established in 1922).
	www.fiveroses.org /intro.htm (9937 words)

	Monotype Imaging: Fonts We Use
		The Wile™ Roman typeface was named after Don Wile, a former Compugraphic executive who inspired the creation of a dedicated type division within the company to serve the needs of OEM customers and creative professionals.
		The world renowned typeface designer, Ed Benguiat, first saw the single-weight design of the ITC Souvenir® typeface in an old American Type Founders catalog, which inspired him to add a range of weights to create a full typeface family.
		The ITC Officina® Serif typeface was first released in 1990 as a paired family of serif and sans serif faces in two weights with italics.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /aboutus/FontsWeUse.aspx?type=AboutUs (283 words)

	EXCELSIOR PRESS MUSEUM PRINT SHOP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ATF was the major manufacturer of printers high quality, hard-metal lead type.
		He wanted to "set type and run a press" but there was no type to be set in the mostly offset shops in the area, and the old printers in the nearby city - those who still used lead type would not trust the work to a young boy.
		We also picked up some type cabinets and some type from Hobson Printing, in Easton, Pa. Hobson was founded in 1896 and did mostly letterpress printing - books and such - almost until the end of the last century.
	excelsiorpress.org (2878 words)

	American Type Founders - Reference Books
		But, even though it is starting to come apart, it has some nice faces that aren't in the 1912 book.
		(1148 pages) It has lots of type samples, listings of press equipment, borders and decorative items, and layouts showing the type in place.
		Jersey City, N.J. This is a 207-page, hardbound book published by ATF in 1934.
	www.garloo.com /atf_reference_books.htm (162 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts - A Brief History of Type
		His machine could scale a drawing to the required size, as well as compressing or expanding the characters, and varying the weight slightly to compensate for the larger or smaller size--- this last being a crude form of the ``optical scaling'' done by skilled typographers making versions of the same font for different sizes.
		Your options include: the aforementioned graphics files; type samples from a book, manual or font vendor's catalog; or simply viewing or printing out the fonts you have available on your computer system, if you have a reasonable variety.
		Ironically, historians of type often relate the development of the ``modern'' letterforms to a then-current obsession with things Roman---in this case the strong contrast and sharp serifs of classical Roman inscriptions.
	nwalsh.com /comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_28.htm (4968 words)

	Fredric W Goudy:Type Designer and Master Craftsman
		She learned to set type by hand and later became an expert typesetter.
		In 1900 Frederic Goudy while still designing type, became a lettering instructor as well as a lecturer on the topic of typography.
		It was released by the American Type Founders Company in 1915 and became an immediate classic.
	www.pointlessart.com /education/loyalist/typeTalk/alphabet/page4.htm (616 words)

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